iPadOS 17.7.7

Is there's a way to make Scribble on iPadOS to work like in watchOS where it takes input per character, not per-certain-pause-period? I'm making a crossword App for iPad, and it gonna be really cool if the user can just write each character inside each box in a very rapid way just like we did on a real physical crossword puzzle.

Under macOS 26 and iPadOS, the Help menu in many cases has a menu item for App Help. This item has the following icon: I need to use this in my own app. I am unable to find this icon in SF Symbols 7 beta. I've scanned all of the icons under What's New. I've searched for help, light, and bulb and this icon does not appear. Does anyone know if it's even a new SF Symbol? Or does anyone know of a way to use this icon?

I am new to swift development, and it's possible that I'm missing something fundamental/obvious. If so, I apologize in advance. My team is developing an application for iPadOS using SwiftUI, and I'm trying to accomplish something similar to what the original inquirer is asking for in this thread: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/725152. The only difference is that I'm trying to use a PIV smart card to achieve authentication to a server rather than digitally sign a document. Unfortunately, I'm getting stuck when attempting to run the list() function provided in the accepted answer to the post mentioned above. When attempting to call SecItemCopyMatching(), I'm getting a -34018 missing entitlement error. I've attempted to add the com.apple.token to my app's keychain-access-groups entitlements, but this does not resolve the issue. I have checked the entitlements in my built app, per the recommendation in the troubleshooting guide here: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/114456. The entitl

I have a few UI Tests in my app, and some of them access the tab bar, for instance: XCUIApplication().tabBars.element.buttons.element(boundBy: tabBarButtonCount - 1).tap() In Xcode 16 though, when performing tests on iPad, this fails, likely due to the new tab bar. How am I supposed to perform this kind of action in iPadOS 18?

Problem - any time I open up keyboard in any app, keyboard floats over page on the middle of the app blocking form input and is just a bad experience. Usage blocker. Has anyone seen this? very debilitating. ipad mini 6 ipados 1.16.4 - at the latest update as of writing this post. help! see in screenshot of this page the keyboard is right in middle of screen blocking actual input.